Ash-pan.



No. 812,370. PATENTED FEB.13, 1906. L. 0. SGHOTTO.

ASH PAN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1905.

Inventor:

Attorneys LOUIS CHARLES SCHOTTQOF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ASH-PAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application filed June 30, 1905. Serial No. 267,794.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs CHARLES SoHoTTo, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Ash-Pan, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ash-pans for stoves, furnaces, and the like, and has for its object to provide a device of this character having movable side wings whereby all the ashes which fall from the grate are guided into the pan.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character having movable side wings and a simply-constructed means whereby the wings are folded to enable the pan and its contents to be removed.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved ash-pan arranged in the ash-pit of a furnace shown in section. Fig. 2 is a similar view of another form of ash-pit, illustrating the modifications required to adapt the improved device to the form of ash-pit therein shown. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved ash-pan detached. Fig. 4 is a perspective view, enlarged, of one of the movable wings detached.

The improved device is readily adaptable to any of the various furnace or stove ashpits having the entrance thereto for the insertion and removal of the ash-pans smaller than thefire-grates or the body of the ash-pit, and for the purpose of illustration is shown in Fig. 1 applied to a circular ash-pit having contracted entrance 11 and in Fig. 2 is shown applied to a square or oblong ash-pit with a like contracted entrance.

The ash-pan is formed with closed bottom 12 and rear end 13 and open front end and with sides 15 16 of the full height at their forward ends and with depressions in the sides at the rear ends or with the rear portions 17 18of the side walls of less height than the forward portions, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3. Mounted to swing, as by hinges 19 20, upon the upper edges of the portions 17 18 of the ash-pan are wings 21 22, the Wings adapted for outward extension in an inclined position into the wider portion of the ash-pit, as shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2,

or foldable inwardly, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig.2, when the pan is to be inserted or removed through the contracted entrance 11. By this means the upper surface of the ash-pan is extensible laterally, so that all the ashes and cinders falling from the grate will be guided into the ash-pan and none of them will fall into the ash-pit outside the pan.

When employed upon the ash-pan of a,circular ash-pit, as in Fig. 1, the wings will be segmental in form, as shown, to conform when extended to the shape of the "ash-pit walls. and will also be reversely curved at the ends, as at 23 24, to cause the wings to engage the inner terminals of the entrance portion 1 1 of the ash-pit, as indicated at 25 26, so that as the ash-pan is drawn outwardly the wings bearing against the corners 25 26 will be thereby folded inwardly and permit the withdrawal of the pan.

When inserting the pan after it has been emptied, the opposite ends 27 28, engaging the outer end of the portion 11, are thereby folded inwardly until they pass the corners 25 26, when the wings fall outwardly by gravity and assume the operative position shown in Fig. 1.

When employed upon an ash-pan used in a square or oblong ash-pit, as in Figs. 2 and 3, the wings 21 22 will be provided with lateral ends 29 30 31 32, operating, respectively, past the inner ends of the outer side portions 15 16 and the rear wall 13 of the ashan. p The side walls of the higher and outer portion of the pan are connected by transverselydisposed stays 33 and 34, the inner stay 34 being provided with a central depression 35 for the reception of a pair of wing-actuating levers 36 and 37. These levers project Within the pan, and their inner ends are connected, respectively, to eyes 39 and 40, carried by the side wings. The levers are pivotally connected to each other by a pin 38, and at their outer ends are provided with rings 41 and 42, which are grasped by the operator and pressed together for the purpose of moving the wings inward toward the body of the pan. When the rings 41 and 42 are separated, as shown in full lines in Figs. 2 and IIO 3, the wings 21 22 will be expanded, and

when the eye members" are moved' inwardly, as in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the wings will be folded to permit the withdrawal and iIlSGI"-' tion of the ash-pan.

formed upon the outer ends of the hinges 19 20, by which the wings are secured to the sides of the ash-pan, as represented in Figs- 2 V and 3, the members 1'9 20performii1g2tfhe threefold function of hinges to movably conmeet the wings with the pan as Braces to strengthen the wings and as seeuringnieans for the inner endsof the'lever me'mbens 3'6-37i The d'eVicei's'simplein construction; can be inexpensively manufactured, and readily adaptedwithout material changes" to any of the various forms of stovesandfurnao'esman ufac'tured. H Y I By means of this" structure it y will be obvious that thelabor ofc'aring. fora stove or furnace is materially reduced and: the an:

noyanee from the littering of ashes and ciiiders obviated} as all the ashes and Cinders are received in the ash-pan and are removed therewith.

Having thus 'descrihe'd the invention, What sleeve wings being pivoted at the top of such por- 1 theme, the ends of the Wings being arranged to swing Within the body of the pan. The'pivotal-members 39 40 are preferably 1 in said 'd epressions and extending inwardly to the body of the pan at the ends 4. An ash-pan eornprising'abody portion and wings, portions of the side Walls being of reduced height;- and thewing's being pivoted at. the top of such portions transverse staybars connecting-those portionsfofthe side walls of full height, one ofsaid'bar's" having a eent'ra'l depression, and pivota-lly oonnected levers extending through the-depressed pertion: ofthe'stay and movably'connected to s'aid wings'.

5': An ash-pan' comprising a body and wings, portions of the side walls of thepan'b'e ing" of reducedheight, andthe wings being pivoted atl the topol such portions and; of suchwidth that when moved inward their upper edges will be" substantially in alinemerit with'the' upperedges ofthe main pertionoftheside'wallsi In testimony'tha-t" I* claim the foregoing as my own I have" hereto afied my signature in thepresenee-of two-witnesses: v

LOUIS= GHARLES" SCHOF-TC);

Witnesses: v I

' GRUENE'WAIED,

JOHN GAZZ'OTO. 

